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Biggest battery in Queensland to double in size after AGL signs up to a 10-year "virtual" contract as big generators lock in to battery storage.

Deloitte’s latest employment forecasts report says that Australia’s economy “is at a critical juncture” following two years of rate hikes from the RBA. Deloitte noted that the economy is “stagnating and growing at its slowest rate (outside of the pandemic) since the early 1990s recession”, which is “finally bleeding through to the labour market”. Most

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It began as a devastating, confined storm off the coast of Sicily, striking the luxury yacht Bayesian in the form of a devastating water column resembling a tornado. Probability was inherent in the name (Thomas Bayes, mathematician and nonconformist theologian of the 18th century, had been the first to use probability inductively) and improbability the…

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According to GUS's rapporter, during the interview of David Baddiel by Simon Longstaff — at the "Sydney Festival of Dangerous Idea"  — Simon asked about the "Ukrainians under the bombs praying to God...". Simon did not mention where the bombs came from. David did not bite and went on merrily making jokes about his Rabbi being an atheist. As well, he said, every "believers" as such is a God-Chosen People, a concept which is is not exclusive to the JEWS...

The livestock industry is furiously lobbying to shut down alternatives, and tame politicians are giving it what it wants.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  22nd August 2024

Some time ago, I wrote a piece in support of Trove, which was in danger of not being funded properly to guarantee its continuation. In that article, I related a story from my family history, about a policeman uncle of mine who was shot while attempting to make an arrest1. This is another one from the past, and refers to the grandparents of the aforementioned policeman. On December 9th, 1905, in the local newspaper, the Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer in New South Wales was an article which went as follows:

“Presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cameron

The host of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Insiders show, David Speers apparently referred to Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s likely nominee for President of the US in the upcoming election, as a ‘woman of colour’1. You’d think that a supposedly professional journalist would eschew such idiocy. Calling anyone a ‘person of colour’ is simply a way of stating they are non-white. I gather that Kamala Harris has referred to herself as a ‘woman of colour’. I haven’t actually heard this, but I’d suggest that it shows how deep this ‘non-white’ terminology and its accompanying racism goes.